Ben Maddow Quotes
Experience has taught me never to trust a policeman. Just when you think one's all right, he turns legit.
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To me, there's no point in writing merely to entertain.
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That's always the trick with the sequels, is how much do you repeat from the first one. Because we all get bummed out when you go see a sequel and it's beat for beat.
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Playing Juliet in 'Heavenly Creatures' changed my life, and the role of Clementine in' Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind' opened many new doors creatively.
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To understand why dictators have a problem with making peace - or at least a genuine peace - the link between the nature of a regime and its external behavior must be understood.
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I hate to repeat lines, to say the same damned thing. I try to rewrite cliches and make what I say sound fresh.
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Freedom is secured every day by our men and women in uniform. We must build a future worthy of their sacrifice.
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Against barbarity, poetry can resist only by confirming its attachment to human fragility like a blade of grass growing on a wall while armies march by.
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I know the difference between true love and the love of my fans.
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A lot of people pulled me up after 'Trainspotting' for its absence of politics, but the argument I make is that the absence of politics is political as well.
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Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.
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Our Heavenly Father is far more merciful, infinitely more charitable, than even the best of his servants, and the Everlasting Gospel is mightier in power to save than our narrow finite minds can comprehend.
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Bolivia is not yet a country of equals.
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We're Jews, my family, and Jews break down into two distinct subcultures: book Jews and money Jews. We were money Jews.
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The aggregate capital appears as the capital stock of all individual capitalists combined. This joint stock company has in common with many other stock companies that everyone knows what he puts in, but not what he will get out of it.
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I am still making my living reciting my verses for crowds who refuse to buy my books. I must do this, as all American rhymers must, however sick I may be of the sound of my own voice.
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The range of my interests in science fiction - it really does run a gamut.
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Enough research will tend to support your conclusions.
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Human beings place their desires ahead of the collective good.
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My doctor gave me six months to live, but when I couldn't pay the bill he gave me six months more.
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Accepting people as they are has the miraculous effect of helping them improve. Acceptance doesn't prohibit growth; rather, it fosters it.
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You can rest a lot in an hour or have a whole day and not do it properly. One way I get a quality recharge is to connect with nature. To experience something that's bigger than me.
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I don't have a goal. I don't limit myself to a goal.
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Trying to predict the future is a loser's game.
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Experience has taught me never to trust a policeman. Just when you think one's all right, he turns legit.
